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2 RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 3.0.5
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4 Koha 3 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Koha open-source
5 integrated library system.
7 You can obtain Koha 3.0.5 from the following URL:
9 http://download.koha.org/koha-3.00.05.tar.gz
11 These Release Notes cover What's New in Koha 3, information about the new
12 Revision control system (Git), and Version-release process, pointers to
13 Download, Installation, and Upgrade documentation, a brief introduction to the
14 new Templates, a call to Translation and Documentation writers, and finally,
15 Known Issues with this version.
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21 1. Zebra plugin - Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured
22 text indexing and retrieval engine. It supports large data sets (tens of
23 millions of records) and includes support for SRU, Z39.50 and several query
24 languages: CCL, CQL, and PQF. For more information about Zebra, please see:
26 http://indexdata.dk/zebra
28 Koha's new search engine, built on top of Zebra, supports features such as
29 relevance ranking, field weighting, truncation, stemming, use of fuzzy
30 operators, language-specific indexing, sorting, etc.
32 Indexes are updated in real-time with circulation transactions, enabling
33 limits by availability and statuses.
35 Faceted refine-by limits are available from both staff and opac interfaces.
37 For libraries that don't want the overhead of maintaing Zebra, Koha 3 ships
38 with a NoZebra option, in which bibliographic and authority data is indexed
41 2. New installer - based on the common Perl module ExtUtils::MakeMaker, the
42 new installer makes it a snap to get Koha running on just about any platform.
44 The installer comes complete with a Developer's Toolkit target ('dev') that
45 can be used to get a development environment linked directly to revision
46 control, to support rapid prototyping and an agile development process.
48 3. Standard APIs - Koha 3 supports a number of important library search and
49 retrieval standards and microformats, such as SRU/W, Z39.50
50 (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/), UnAPI (http://unapi.info/) and
52 (http://ocoins.info; http://www.niso.org/committees/committee_ax.html).
54 Also supported is the popular Internet standard: OpenSearch
55 (http://opensearch.a9.com/) created by Amazon's A9.
57 Records are stored internally in an SGML-like format and can be retrieved in
58 MARCXML, Dublin Core, MODS, RSS, Atom, RDF-DC, SRW-DC, OAI-DC, and EndNote;
59 and the OPAC can be used by citation tools such as Zotero. Creating new
60 export formats is a trivial exercise in writing XSLT; records can be passed
61 through XSLT transformations either directly out of the index, or via a
62 separate parsing function.
64 To retrieve and interact with Circulation and Patron data, Koha 3 includes
65 support for 3M's Standard Interchange Protocol (SIP2), using the OpenNCIP
66 libraries (http://openncip.org).
68 There are also an ever-expanding set of native REST APIs to handle
69 interoperability with external tools such as third-party cataloging clients.
70 These APIs provide authentication as well as add/edit/delete control over
71 bibliographic data within a Koha system. For more information, see:
73 http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:web_services
75 Koha 3 also includes pluggable authentication - easy integration with LDAP and
76 Active Directory via the Auth_with_ldap module.
78 Enriched content web services, such as those offered by Amazon.com, Baker and
79 Taylor's Content Cafe, and the Google Book API can be enabled to enrich
80 bibliographic content with jacket covers, professional reviews, ratings and
81 comments from users, as well as point to 'Similar Items' within the catalog.
82 OCLC's xISBN, and LibraryThing's ThingISBN an likewise be enabled to provide
83 an 'Editions' tab, pulling together all the formats, languages, and editions
84 of a work into the item detail pages. New with Koha 3 is service throttling
85 for these services, to keep within subscription limits.
87 4. Cross-platform, multi-RDBMS, Web-server agnostic - Run Koha on the platform
88 of your choice: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris. Koha 3 also
89 includes better support for multi-RDBMS (MySQL 5.0 and PostgreSQL), and runs
90 under Apache2, IIS, or the web server of your choosing.
92 5. Multi-lingual support - Koha was designed from the ground up for multilingual
93 libraries. Koha 3 can handle Chinese, Japanese, and even right-to-left languages
94 such as Arabic and Hebrew with ease (BiDi).
96 Koha's index engine (Zebra) can handle record formats containing any UNICODE
97 compliant script, such as Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Zebra
98 has this support via the ICU libraries created and maintained by IBM.
100 You can translate Koha into your language using the built-in translation tools,
101 or by visiting http://translate.koha.org.
103 6. New templates - Koha's staff and patron interfaces are developed with a
104 template system that's easy to theme. The default templates are composed of 100%
105 valid XHTML and CSS. Koha aims to meet or exceed U.S. Government Section 508 and
106 W3C's WAI-AA standards for sight and motor impaired individuals. All
107 Javascript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser.
109 7. Koha 3 has quite a few new modules, as well as enhancements to existing
110 modules, including: news writer, label creator, calendar, OPAC comments, MARC
111 staging and overlay, notices, transaction logs, guided reports with a data
112 dictionary and task scheduler, classification sources/filing rules, and more!
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118 With Koha 3, we've started using a new distributed revision control system
119 called Git; it's the same system in use by many other projects, including the
120 Linux Kernel. To learn more about how to develop Koha using Git, please see
123 http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:git_usage
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129 With Koha 3, version numbering has been changed to use a method similar to
132 major.minor[.revision[.build]]
136 * revision: two-digit
139 This release of Koha 3.00.05 is versioned 3.00.05.01. Every database change
140 or significant enough code change requires an update to the 'build' number,
141 and developers will be able to easily upgrade their systems using the built-in
146 This release of Koha 3.0.5 includes about 100 patches with bug fixes and translations:
148 Bug 3824: Item modif doesn't select default value in combo list
149 Bug 3863 AmazonReviews not showing up
150 MT2432 : Do not show "place hold" link when there's no items
151 (bug #3173) revert non-working code
152 (bug #3898) Followup : fixing Hold Policies implementation
153 3.0.x : intranet results Removing missing features
154 Dates : dates without beginning 0 are considered valid
155 (bug #3819) variable name typo
156 (bug #3819) still fixing holds policies
157 Bug 3827: Impossible to set a subfield mandatory in biblio framework
158 Bug 3784: Don't fail on opac-detail.pl with invalid biblionumber
159 MT 2415 : tablesorter for shelves
160 (bug #3823) on hold items in opac
161 MT 2360 : Adds address, city and zipcode to overdues csv export
162 (bug #3348) another order receive fix
163 (bug #3825) improve waiting holds
164 (bug #3826) improve modrequest.pl
165 MT 2110 : adds title, due date and issue date to csv overdues export
166 Bug 3818 Allow 10 characters in bookfund id input
167 Bug 3806 - Holidays improperly sorted by date
168 Bug 3805 Suppress display of basket level invoice no
169 Bug 3805 Suppress basket invoice number display
170 (bug #3801) fix itemtype administration
171 Bug 3800 - Misplaced IF was causing the no permission message never to be displayed
172 Bug 3813: SIP2, Bad Patron Information Response to Message 64
173 (bug #3816) differenciate reserved and on loan items
174 (bug #3819) hold policies implementation
175 (bug #3819) hold policies doesn't work
176 (bug #3822) fix returning document in transfert
177 (bug #3798) fix changing request branch
178 Removing es-VE at request of translators
179 [3.0.x][followup](bug #3348) orderreceive problems
180 Bug 3754: Follow-up patch
181 (bug #3791) overduerules and numeric categorycodes
182 (bug #3786) fix items edition menu
183 (MT 1970) fix javascript
184 (bug #3783) fix marcurls
185 (bug #3734) Fix previous patch of isbd view
186 [followup](bug #3779) fix tmpl_if
187 [followup](bug #3760) delete some warn
188 (bug #3760) fix and improve some reports
189 (bug #3761) fix virtualshelf ordering
190 (bug #3762) fix warnings in GetCoinsBiblio
191 (bug #3771) delete multiple holds
192 (bug #3772) show place hold button in isbd view
193 [followup](bug #3550) fix opensearch with subtitle
194 (bug #3778) GetBranchesLoop and searchMyLibraryFirst
195 (bug #3779) overdues csv fix
196 Subscription add Updating Online Help file
197 Translation fix : opac-recentacquisitions
198 Adding Support for $9 and $3 on authority hierarchy
199 Followup : d31ac1 reintroducing submit buttons
200 [followup] (bug #3710) all itemtypes if none selected
201 (recent acquisitions)
202 (bug #3734) another isbd view for opac
203 (bug #3754) fix language choose
204 Fixing translation stopped on acqui-search-result.tmpl
205 Admin/categorie.pl _get_bref_messaging_pref missing
206 (bug #3745) fix deletion of borrowers rights detection
207 [3.0.x](bug #3753) returning a document always needs transfert
208 Updating INSTALL.ubuntu
209 Fix 3741 : Amazon cover image not displayed
210 (bug #3558) fix build_browser_and_cloud
211 Bug Fixing : holds management Adding GetBranchItemRule
212 followup TransformhtmltoXML
214 Followup bfffa5 TransformHTMLToXML bug fix
215 Reintroducing submit buttons in translations
216 Bug Fix MT2104 : Edit authorities problem on multiple field
217 (bug #3281) change the way to parse item's summary
219 This release is bugfix only release, and doesnot include new
221 It adds 1 changes in database, which is few new tables required for some partial features ports from 3.2 due to the previous release.
224 Note that Windows is not supported for this version as there are blockers.
226 Note that this version is still supporting only MySQL.
227 Support for PostgreSQL is still very experimental.
229 New features which have deep impact on code will be available in Koha 3.2
230 and subsequent releases.
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233 UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION OF KOHA
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236 The upgrade process from a previous version of Koha is documented on the Wiki
237 at the following page:
239 Upgrading from 2.2 or earlier version:
241 http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=22_to_30
243 Upgrading from a previous version of 3.0:
245 Please consult INSTALL files for details on how to upgrade
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251 You may have heard that the templates for Koha 3 have been re-skinned; there
252 is also the start of a template style guide on the Wiki:
254 http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:templates_style_guide
256 Kudos to Owen Leonard and the Nelsonville Public Library for their
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263 Koha 3.0.5 (this release) currently has complete translations for the following
266 OPAC: ar-Arab (Arabic), da-DK (Danish), de-DE (German), el-GR (Greek), es-ES (Spanish), en (English),
267 en-NZ (New Zealand English), fr-FR (French),
268 hu-HU (Hungarian), it-IT (Italian), nn-NO - Norwegian Nynorsk, nb-NO Norwegian (Bokmål),
269 nl-NL (Dutch), pt-PT (Portuguese), tr-TR (Turkish),
270 ru-RU (Russian), uk-UA (Ukranian)
273 Staff Client: de-DE (German), el-EL (Greek), fr-FR (French), en (English),
274 es-ES (Spanish), it-IT (Italian), uk-UA (Ukranian),
277 Additionally, Koha 3.0.5 (this release) has partial translations for the following
280 OPAC: am-Ethi (Amharic), bg-Cyrl (Bulgarian), fa-Arab (Persian), fi-FI (Finnish)
281 gl (Galician), he-Hebr (Hebrew), hr-HR (Croatian), hu-HU (Hungarian), id-ID (Indonesian),
282 ja-Japn (Japanese), kn-Knda (kannada), ko-Kore (Korean), lo-Laoo (Laoo),
283 mi-NZ (Maori), pl-PL (Polish), sv-SE (Swedish),
284 tet (Tetum), zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan)
286 Staff Client: ar-Arab (Arabic), es-ES (Spanish), hu-HU (Hungarian),
287 hy-Armn (Armenian), ja-Japn (Japanese), nn-NO - Norwegian Nynorsk, nb-NO Norwegian (Bokmål),
288 pt-PT (Portuguese), ru-RU (Russian), tr-TR (Turkish),
289 zh-Hans-CN (Simplified Chinese in China), zh-Hans-TW (Simplified Chinese in Taiwan)
291 The Koha Team welcomes additional translations; please see
292 http://www.kohadocs.org/usersguide/apb.html for information about
293 translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer:
295 http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-translate
297 You can find latest uptodate translations on Pootle : http://translate.koha.org/languages/
298 You can also ask for translation rights if you need.
299 Thank you for your patience and your work, translators.
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305 User-contributed documentation for Koha 3 is available on the Koha Wiki
306 (http://wiki.koha.org). The Koha Team welcomes documentation contributions;
307 please join the Koha-devel list to volunteer:
309 http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
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315 Known bugs are documented on the Koha wiki: http://bugs.koha.org and at the
316 3.0 RM's QA notes Wiki page:
318 http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:development:qanotes3.0